Search results for “[subject: right-to-die]”

• Author(s): John Hardwig • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EssaysAmid the controversies surrounding physician-assisted suicides, euthanasia, and long-term care for the elderly, a major component in the ethics of medi...

• Author(s): Kalman Kaplan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralPresents several theoretical and empirical articles on the topic of euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide and suicide. This book includes some prelimin...

• Author(s): Daniel Hillyard | John Dombrink • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Death & DyingDying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-...

• Author(s): Diana Crane • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EthicsFor years, speculation has been mounting among lawyers, church leaders, social scientists, and the general public over the question of prolongation of l...

• Author(s): Lisa-Marie Komp • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: InternationalThis book focuses on border deaths at sea. It unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunit...

• Author(s): Saartje Tack • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: SuicideDeploying feminist and queer theories of embodiment and subjectivity, The Impossible Subject of Suicide stages an intervention into dominant understan...

• Author(s): Lill Scherdin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PenologyAs most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Hallam | Jenny Hockey | Glennys Howarth • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Death & DyingPresents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the bod...

• Author(s): Browne Lewis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Medical Law & LegislationPosthumous reproduction refers to the procedure that enables a child to be conceived using the gametes of a dead person. Advance...

• Author(s): Keren Rosa Hammerschlag • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - European - RomanticismKeren Rosa Hammerschlag's Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection offers a timely reexamination of the a...

• Author(s): Annette Jansen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Genocide & War CrimesAlthough the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups...

• Author(s): Katharine S. E. Cresswell Riol • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human RightsIt is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. ...

• Author(s): W. Andy Knight | Frazer Egerton • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics,...

• Author(s): Damien Keown • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis innovative volume brings together the views of leading scholars on a range of controversial subjects including human rights, ani...

• Author(s): Pauline Allen | Boudewijn Dehandschutter | Johan Leemans • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christian Theology - HistoryThis book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority...

• Author(s): Ahrens John • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyDoes the present generation have a moral obligation to conserve resources for future generations? Must we accept drastic reductio...

• Author(s): Laura Westra • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EnvironmentalThe traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generation...

• Author(s): Rinaldo Cristofori | Silvio Ferrari • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human RightsThe essays and articles selected for this volume analyze what is generally understood by freedom of religion and belief in...

• Author(s): Adnan Sattar • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: JurisprudenceThis book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdis...

• Author(s): Lani Watson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralWe speak of the right to know with relative ease. You have the right to know the results of a medical test or to be informed about the collection and u...

• Author(s): Arabella Lyon | Lester C. Olson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralRhetoric scholars have articulated diverse approaches to both civil and human rights as political, ethical, and academic discourses...

• Author(s): Colin Francome • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Abortion & Birth ControlFirst published in 1984, Abortion Freedom explains the main reasons for widespread international liberalisation of abortion law...

• Author(s): Laura Westra • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EnvironmentalThe traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generation...

• Author(s): Tom Campbell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Civil RightsWe take rights to be fundamental to everyday life. Rights are also controversial and hotly debated both in theory and practice. Where do rights c...

• Author(s): Stephen C. Angle | Marina Svensson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human RightsRepresentative selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, rendered into fluid and non-technical Engl...

• Author(s): Saladin Meckled-García | Basak Çali • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human RightsThe concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage. It is now a key part in dis...

• Author(s): Herbert Marcuse | Raymond Wolters • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Civil ProcedureIn the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 called for nondiscrimination fo...

• Author(s): Janusz Symonides • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Civil RightsPresenting reflections on the historical perspectives and philosophical foundations of human rights, this book provides a detailed analysis o...

• Author(s): Böhm Katharina • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare sta...

• Author(s): Helen Fenwick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Civil RightsRoutledge QandAs give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an ...

• Author(s): Behzad Zerehdaran • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Regional StudiesThis book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar e...

• Author(s): Jon P. Mitchell | Richard a. Wilson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Civil RightsIn the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in ...

• Author(s): Karen-Margrethe Simonsen | Jonas Ross Kjaergard • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: RhetoricWhat does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form an...

• Author(s): Robin Holt • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDo human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being e...

• Author(s): Stephen R. L. Clark • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernTwenty years ago, people thought only cranks or sentimentalists could be seriously concerned about the treatment of non-...

• Author(s): Abdullahi An-Na'Im | Edited By Mashood A. Baderin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe relationship between Islam and human rights forms an important aspect of contemporary international human rig...